On 22/04/15 01:30, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
On 22/04/15 01:05, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com> wrote:
On 22/04/15 00:49, Allan McRae wrote:
I think the symlink is very important. And I am very against VIsudo calling anything other than vi by default. Unless you rename it nanosudo.
The problem is that vim is not provided in [core] and cannot be part of a base installation. We can't make an editor from [extra] the default.
I'm open to suggestions, but consider that nano is the only remaining editor in [core]. (And it will work fine as a fallback editor.)
If that's your condition I'm for bringing vim-minimal into [core]. Leave the other vim variants in [extra].
While this solution is acceptable, I believe it's a bit of an overkill. But if Anatol is fine with maintaining vim-{minimal,runtime} in [core], then let's go with vim. (And also include vi symlinks I guess!)
By the way, it's worth noting that vim-minimal has a footprint of about 30 MiB. It's not much, but compared to nano's 2 MiB, it's way larger. I'm probably repeating what I've written in my previous posts, but to me the cleanest implementation is to have one tiny editor in [core] as part of the base installation (nano), and use that as the fallack for the five or so programs that used to default to vi. Adding a second, much larger, editor in [core] and base (vim) just so that it can be made the default fallback, seems kind of unnecessary.